PSP 207: How to Help Kids Who are Scared of Bugs

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Anxiety, Ocd Therapy, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Ocd, Health & Fitness, Ocd In Children, Parenting, Mental Health

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Many kids and even adults are scared of bugs. But for some of our kids it goes way beyond that. Perhaps they won’t go outside, won’t go to the park or won’t go swimming because of their fear of insects. Maybe they are worried about taking a shower or a bath or even going to the bathroom.

What are you supposed to do to help your child move through such a debilitating fear of bugs?

In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about some of the approaches I take when trying to help a child with their fear of bugs. Hopefully it can help your kids too!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through
0:08.1	the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD.
0:12.1	This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of
0:16.5	a qualified professional.
0:18.0	Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:22.1	Well, hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.
0:28.5	Today, I'm going to talk to you about something that I'm sure a lot of your kids are going
0:32.9	through, maybe even you go through this, and that is the fear of bugs.
0:37.4	So we're going to dive into that.
0:39.1	I have quite a few little people in my house who are afraid of bugs, and I want to talk
0:44.2	about what's typical and maybe then what becomes kind of a clinical concern.
0:49.1	So before I get started though, I want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode.
0:54.6	NoCD brings affordable OCD therapy to all 50 states now, and they're expanding into
1:00.8	other countries, which is crazy exciting because I can't tell you how many people from around
1:06.0	the world contact me and tell me that they can't find an OCD therapist.
1:10.9	So they are now from what I've been told in the UK and Australia, and I've been trying
1:16.0	to say, get to Canada and they're working on it.
1:19.2	So if you want to learn more about NoCD and see what providers are in your state or even
1:24.4	in your country, you can go to go.treatmyocd.com slash at underscore parenting.
1:33.4	And I will leave a link in the show notes if you didn't catch that.
1:36.1	So let's talk all about bugs.
1:38.8	This was actually a question that I got from a Patreon who is part of the mini coaching,
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